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Chapter 119 Interrogation

At this time, there was enough manpower, so Han Zong and Zheng Jian were not in a hurry to interrogate the criminals, but instead assigned officials to check the accounts in each warehouse. ∈◆The main business of goods business is exchange and cash. There was not much tea saved, so it was not troublesome to check it.

According to the system, each warehouse has a warehouse of officials who are in charge of the warehouse, which is in charge of the income and expenditure books of each warehouse. Anything that comes out of an object is required to be registered immediately. However, since the inspection is not strict, it is often not registered immediately, which leaves room for operation. Another thing is in the local area, such as the one who is in charge of the magistrate, has long promoted the "Four-pillar Accounting Method" mentioned in later generations. On the contrary, these warehouses in Beijing have not implemented it, and the "Three-pillar Method" is used, and the old management is missing.

Such accounts are not familiar with veterans, and it is difficult to understand clearly.

What the Gouyuan under Zheng Jian did was to audit and check the accounts. He brought more than a dozen public officials here to do this.

The public officials of the Gouyuan took the Xiangjun from the three departments to check the accounts. Han Zong and Zheng Jian were assigned to each warehouse. Then the two re-discussed the seats in the official hall and ordered the main person in charge of the goods on duty today and the Dukujing, who was in charge of the tea warehouse.

Seeing the soldiers taking the order out, Zheng Jian said to Han Zong: "I took Zhongwen's handwritten post. I knew the matter was serious. When I came, I informed Yang Daozhi of Mokan Department and sent someone to the Treasury Department to send someone there too."

After hearing this, Han Zong frowned slightly, but said nothing, just said, "Don't think about it thoroughly."

The account check was Gouyuan and Mojian Department, and this was nothing, and they were all under the control of the three departments. However, Zheng Jian asked the Tiju to send someone to the Treasury Department of the Beijing treasury department, which made Han Zong a little unhappy.

The places where goods and services are under the control of the three departments, but the three departments have too many and complicated affairs, so they can't take care of them. The court set up a yamen such as the tutoring of the tutors. The tutoring department is independent of the three departments, and even the accounts in charge of the internal warehouse are not even clear about the government affairs hall. Originally, the tutoring department was only responsible for reviewing the accounts of each tutor and supervising the officials in charge, but as time went by, it gradually began to interfere in the personnel appointments, removals and rewards of these tutors, and the punishments below the rod can be directly decided. In other words, the tutoring department's authority in these tutoring departments tends to be above the three departments.

The matter was still not a single word, and it was not clear what happened. Zheng Jian first called a bunch of people from various yamen, fearing that the matter would not be a big deal. If it was found out in the end that there was nothing big, it was just that the minor officials in the goods affairs abused their power, it would be so embarrassing, and it seemed that the people in the three departments had no rules in their work.

Zheng Jian did not pay attention to Han Zong's expression and said to him: "Zhongwen, do you think we should go to inform Deputy Envoy Xu and see if he has any instructions there. Otherwise, we will be arbitrary and have a bad look on our faces afterwards."

"No need!" Han Zong refused flatly. "Heavenly, when I was in Yongzhou, I served as the deputy chief of the deputy envoy Xu for many years. I know that the deputy envoy is a human being. Now things have not exceeded our authority, so just make a decision. I will write a detailed letter to the deputy envoy afterwards. Deputy envoy Xu does not like to report to the subordinates in every detail. As a subordinate, you must be able to stand alone."

Han Zong is a subordinate brought by Xu Ping from Yongzhou. Since that's the case, what else can Zheng Jian say?

As the third place in the first class of Tiansheng in the second year, Zheng Jian's official position is not as good as Han Zonggao, who did not enter the first-class Jinshi for eight years. In this way, he was promoted smoothly. With Xu Ping for more than three years, Han Zong's official position in the past three years was equivalent to others struggling for more than ten years. It is precisely because of this that he implemented Xu Ping's orders without any discount.

The soldier brought the chief of goods and the Dukujing, who was in charge of the tea warehouse, into the official hall and reported to Han Zong and Zheng Jian.

The chief official of the Korean businessman who is in his fifties, his eyes are calm and his expression is restrained, and he seems calm from the inside to the outside. He knows that this is an old official who has been struggling in the public office for decades, so it is definitely not easy to deal with.

Dukujing looks much older, with her hair and beards and hair and her eyes are a little cloudy. As soon as she enters the door, she has a flattering smile on her face, and her whole body is filled with a smooth and obscene aura.

Judging from the appearance alone, one of the two is capable and the other is sloppy, and they really gather the characteristics of the minor officials. These two types of people are the most troublesome for officials. It is difficult to catch them and deal with them.

The supervisors who manage these business affairs are appointed by the three departments. Because there is a lot of oil and water, it is a fat and shortage in the eyes of the powerful and powerful children in the capital. Each of them has been surrounded by various personnel since the previous term. Now the person in charge of goods is appointed by Ren Bu when he was in office. Xu Ping has never changed people since he took office.

Knowing that the prison officials who were not here today were just idiots who came to make money, Han Zong and Zheng Jian had no intention of calling him here, but just took their subordinates to ask about things.

Two public officials came up to salute and stood down below.

Han Zong asked in a deep voice: "From today on the court, all government agencies will not handle official business. Why are there anyone here who brings tea outside? Don't hide it, come from the truth, otherwise you will inevitably suffer from flesh and blood!"

The head of the head replied calmly: "Report to Shangguan, someone came to exchange tea yesterday for the 'Zhu's transfer shop, because it was too late when we arrived, and it was inconvenient to keep the books in mind. It was a young man who discussed with the head of the head and asked them to come back early this morning and move tea early."

"It's nonsense! Every day, everyone needs to be in. If the account book is sealed, no one is allowed to come in! How come you have checked the transfer, but it is not convenient to send tea and keep the account?"

Zheng Jian beat the case a few times and asked sternly.

The head official said: "According to the rules, it should be like this. However, the public officials in the yamen have done these things for decades, and they will inevitably become lazy over time. Sometimes, there are always people who do not follow the rules."

Zheng Jian just sneered, and he didn't believe a word of what the chief said.

Using his power to obtain personal gain will make big mistakes when something happens. Zheng Jian won’t not know this trick.

Looking at the Duku Jing who had been standing there stupidly, Zheng Jian asked him: "You are in charge of the tea warehouse. Without you, no one can move out the tea. It should be closed from yesterday. Why would you like to come back today?"

Dukujing seemed a little embarrassed: "Report to Shangguan, I told me yesterday that I had endless tea to send. Today I would like to help me with it. I allowed me to watch the lights and eat wine at night. The old man was at home and had nothing to do, so he came to earn this wine."

"The imperial treasury, you actually violated the rules for a banquet?"

Seeing Zheng Jian’s face was cold, Dukujing was not afraid, and smiled and said, “Shangguan said it was scary. This tea should have been sent yesterday, but it was too late. I came to move it today and it would be like a delivery yesterday. What’s the point?”

One of these two answered calmly, and the other pretended to be crazy and stupid. Han Zong looked at him coldly, and he knew that he would not be able to ask anything again after a while.

Either there is really no love here, just by chance, or these officials have already colluded, and how to deal with it after an accident has been arranged. Han Zong has been working together in the sugar sugar business for many years, and has followed Xu Ping for a long time. He knows that if he can't break out of the pattern arranged by these officials, it will be useless no matter how he checks it.

So many officials were mobilized and were solemn and could not get through without any explanation. So they left some small handles so that officials could report to show that they were doing things with their hearts. Anyway, they were all small mistakes and the punishment was not heavy. In the future, they would also be taken care of by their accomplices in their lives, and these were also in their plans.

Seeing that Zheng Jian was going to argue with these two officials, Han Zong stopped him and ordered the soldiers in the hall: "Go outside and mention all the people who were transferred to the store "Deng" to the goods."

When the soldiers went out, Han Zong called two subordinates of the Salt and Iron Department to come over and whispered: "You two, each of you will bring a minor official below to the next level, ask questions and record them in detail."

While talking, he took a pen and wrote it on a piece of paper. It was nothing more than what time was yesterday, who was in the commodity service, who negotiated with, how many tea entries were exchanged, where did these tea entries be issued, and so on.

This is what Han Zong learned from Xu Ping. It is useless to beat, scold, scare these people, so he uses this method. No matter how seamless they do it, the details cannot be completely matched. As long as there are flaws, the mechanism will be broken.

Of course, if their details can match, it means that they can trust them. Even if they are well prepared and even think of the details, the officials will admit that they are unlucky.

The two officials took people out, and Han Zong said to Zheng Jian again: "One person has also come out of the ward courtyard where you go to check when the tea collected in the last responsibilities yesterday. When and where were they sent out, the amount marks were clearly recorded. Afterwards, we followed the tea to tell these people, and we should have a rough idea of ​​whether there is any evil or not."

Zheng Jian was already ready to use torture when he was in a while. Seeing that Han Zong made such arrangements, he thought it would make sense, so he called the three public officials from Gouyuan to come over and asked them to check the tea quotations and record them in detail.

These transfers are certificates for importing food and grass along the border. The issued by each prefecture and county is different, and the dates are different. Of course, the officials who entrust printing are not the same person. Because whether it is transfers or goods service, they must record them in detail. If the person in charge does not say anything, they must have a general impression. If all parties are sorry, they are intentionally cheating.

After a while, the soldiers brought two rich businessmen from outside to salute Han Zong and Zheng Jian.

Han Zong said: "You two are the supervisors of the 'Deng's transfer shop. The goods department said that your shop came to the service to change tea late yesterday, right?"

The two said together: "Report to Shangguan, this is indeed true."

Han Zong nodded: "Then was the two of you who exchanged yesterday?"

One of them said: "Shangguan, I came here."

"Okay, you go out with the officials of our yamen and have something to ask you."
Chapter completed!
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